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by wkoury 1894 days ago
Last year I made an app for a professor that tells you your chances of getting into Harvard based on your high school circumstances. The results are pretty crazy: https://wkoury.github.io/harvard-admissions/
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HDMI_Cable 1894 days ago
Wow, if you have a perfect SAT, perfect grades, and are of a race which is more likely to get in, you still only have a ~50% chance. It really seems like a lot of these admissions are purely random, unless you're a legacy kid or football player.

I'm not American (Canada), and I beat myself up over not applying in the US, because of intangibles like "networking" and "small class sizes". Now I'm glad I didn't, this seems fucked up.

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jnwatson 1894 days ago
That's quite interesting. That's the kind of information that should be provided to high school freshmen.
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